I honestly would have preferred a hispanic to play the lead instead of
Do not get me wrong, but if I was the director of this film I would have looked for a true hispanic woman to play the role of Colombiana. Saldana may have a hispanic name, but in all reality she is not really hispanic because I read her bio. It states that she was born in the United States in New Jersey. Her family moved at a young age to the Dominican Republic. My theory is that the reason why she may have a hispanic name is because her mother could have married a guy from the Dominican Republic, or she might have gotten married herself at a young age to have a hispanic name.
I would have had a casting call in like Colombia, or even taken a no name actress who was hispanic to play the lead role in the film. Now there are hispanics from Cuba who are black, but they are Spanish though. I just figured that I would put my 2 cents about the movie even though it looks good to watch. My only complaint is that they did not cast the lead character properly for this film.
I notice now that Angelina Jolie has opened it up for women to become action heroes that more films are being designed to have lead actresses as the action heroin in the films these days. I do miss the old past of such actors like Stallone, Bruce Willis, the Govenator himself, Steven Seagal, Jan Van Claude, or any other lead male actors doing action films. There is not enough like there once was 20 or 30 years ago. I should mention Chuck Norris in this as well because I remember in the late 70's and throughout the 80's watching some good action films from Chuck Norris.
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